Job 29:4

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just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The LORD’s loyal followers receive his guidance, and he reveals his covenantal demands to them.
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 for one who goes astray is an abomination to the LORD, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.
  • Job 1:10 : 10 Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.
  • Job 15:8 : 8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
  • Ps 27:5 : 5 He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, and resides in the protective shadow of the Sovereign One–
  • Col 3:3 : 3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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